The same is true for pre- and post-activities. You can always modify the warm-up to reach more students in your class. You may want to alert the Science teacher on your grade team that you are thinking of teaching these poems and coordinate the timing of your lessons with hers in order to enrich assignments in both subjects.Īs in other lessons, in order to reach diverse learners, you should look at the activities as suggestions from which you can choose in order to help all your students learn. After reading the poems and coming to an understanding of their meanings, students will write their own poems using light and dark.Ī note about lesson integration: The study of light and dark can integrate with Science lessons. The lessons below, aligned with the Common Core Standards, ask your students to look at light and dark in different settings, experiment with how light and dark change the mood of a place or object, then read the poems collaboratively. As your students work with the concepts of light and dark, they, too, will understand that they can create powerful symbols. Our poems mark these transitions, not only in their planetary manifestations, but also symbolically. In the southern hemisphere, we experience the Summer Solstice with the longest day of the year transitioning to days with less light. In the northern hemisphere, the Winter Solstice gives us the shortest day of the year and the transition to longer days with more light. There's a certain Slant of light (258) by Emily DickinsonĪcquainted with the Night by Robert FrostĪround the world, December is a time when light and dark are at their peak. These lessons focus on poems about light and darkness:

Srdx light or dark